Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand
Words and Music by Gene MacLellan, 1971
These are the chords as I hear them from Superhits of the '70s - Volume 4 as
performed by Ocean. I take no credit for this whatsoever. I only wrote down the
words and chords as I heard them. Feel free to do whatever you want with this.
[Chords used]
E B G D A E
A X 0 2 2 2 0
A7 X 0 2 0 2 0
A# X 1 3 3 3 1
A#dim(7) X X 2 3 2 3
B X 2 4 4 4 2
Bm X 2 4 4 3 2
B7 X 2 1 2 0 2
D X 0 0 2 3 2
D#dim(7) X X 1 2 1 2
E 0 2 2 1 0 0
E7 0 2 0 1 0 0
F#m 2 4 4 2 2 2
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[CHORUS 1] (Key of E)
E B7
Put your hand in the hand of the man Who stilled the water
F#m B E
Put your hand in the hand of the man Who calmed the sea
E7 A A#dim(7)
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others differently,
E B A E A E B
By puttin? your hand in the hand of the man from the Galilee!
[VERSE 1] (Key of E)
E B7
Every time I look into the holy book I want to tremble
F#m B E
When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple
E7 A A#dim(7)
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas than what I profess to be,
E B A E A E
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be!
[CHORUS 2] (Key of A)
A E7
So put your hand in the hand of the man Who stilled the water
Bm E A
Put your hand in the hand of the man Who calmed the sea
A7 D D#dim(7)
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others differently,
A E D A D A E
By puttin? your hand in the hand of the man from the Galilee!
[VERSE 2] (Key of A)
A E7
My mamma taught me how to pray before I reached the age of seven
A A# E A
She said, "There?ll come a time when there'll probably be room in heaven!"
A7 D D#dim(7)
But I?m feeling kinda guilty ?bout the number of times to do what we must do,
A E D A D A
But we forget what he said when we figured that He?d still make room!
[CHORUS 3] (Key of A)
E A E7
So! Ya gotta put your hand in the hand of the man Who stilled the water
Bm E A
Put your hand in the hand of the man Who calmed the sea
A7 D D#dim(7)
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others differently,
A E D A D A E
By puttin? your hand in the hand of the man from the Galilee!
[CHORUS 2] (Key of A)
A E7
So put your hand in the hand of the man Who stilled the water
Bm E A
Put your hand in the hand of the man Who calmed the sea
A7 D D#dim(7)
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others differently,
A E D A D A E
By puttin? your hand in the hand of the man from the Galilee!
